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TITLE:
libksba X.509 Certificates Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA22423

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/22423/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
libksba 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/12330/
libksba 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/12329/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in libksba, which can be exploited
by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when handling X.509
certificates with additional trailing data. This can be exploited via
specially crafted X.509 certificates to crash an application using the
library.

SOLUTION:
Restrict access to services using the vulnerable library.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported in a SUSE advisory.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_23_sr.html

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